CULTURE SUCCESSION 



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These are represented in 170 feet of culture strata still remaining out 

 of an original aggregate thickness that has been much diminished by 

 wind and rain. 





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Figure 2. — Diagram of the Successive Cultures at Anan 

 I and II, north Kurgan ; III and IV, south Kurgan ; V, city of Anan. 



In the diagram the three sites are represented one above the other, 

 and intervals are left between them to represent the height each kurgan 

 is estimated, as I will show, to have lost in the long lapse of time. 



Already the oldest of these cultures appears here with a well developed 

 pottery made by hand and a stock of geometrical designs which they 



